Category: Seinfeld

  • Paul Shaffer Was Asked To Play George Constanza On Seinfeld
    Paul Shaffer Was Asked To Play George Constanza On Seinfeld

    That’s his contention anyway, as expressed here. It doesn’t feel quite right to me. Maybe they had a part for him, but not George surely? Jerry Seinfeld said on Howard Stern’s show though that it was “wrong … I don’t know how that got started, not true.” On the same radio show, Jerry revealed that…

  • Letterman Walks In On The Seinfeld Set
    Letterman Walks In On The Seinfeld Set

    Have a watch of this, and we’ll talk afterwards. https://youtu.be/6zGsJB2ggUA First of all, that Hotdog bit is great, and I want to see much more of that argument. Let’s try and pin down when this episode aired. The sets of shows we see are Grace Under Fire, The Larry Sanders Show (which itself wandered onto…

  • Hyacinth & Seinfeld
    Hyacinth & Seinfeld

    Keeping Up Appearances is a sitcom written by Roy Clarke for BBC One, starring Patricia Routledge, which ran for five series between 1990 and 1995. But you knew that already. You may not know that it is still one of the BBC’s most exported shows worldwide. Routledge demonstrated time and again her physical comedy prowess.…

  • WW2 101
    WW2 101

    This isn’t all that funny.

  • The Seinfeld Christmas Episodes
    The Seinfeld Christmas Episodes

    Outside of one particularly iconic episode, Seinfeld isn’t remembered for its Christmas stories, and never had an actual special festive episode. For the most part, the season was hinted at only through set dressings, and plots about present giving. The Red Dot has mention of a Christmas office party, and the central plot device is…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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